Central Oʻahu
Pearl City & ʻAiea
Close to town, priced like it is not, and it goes fast.
- Median single-family
- $1,078,000+12% YoY
- Days on market
- 12 days
- Of original list
- 102.2%
- To downtown
- 20–25 min to downtown
July 2026 figures for the Pearl City – ʻAiea reporting area. Source: Honolulu Board of REALTORS®, compiled from MLS data.
Pearl City and ʻAiea sit on the hillside above Pearl Harbor, which buys them two things the west side cannot: a genuinely short run into town, and elevation. ʻAiea Heights, Newtown, Royal Summit and Pacific Palisades climb far enough up to catch the breeze and look out over the whole harbor.
It is the most competitive market on this list. July closings came in above original list price — the whole area, on average, sold for more than sellers first asked — and the median house went under contract in under two weeks. Buyers who treat this as the affordable alternative and shop it slowly lose houses here.
Much of the housing is 1960s and 1970s tract stock, which means the condition spread is wide and the renovated ones are worth the premium they ask. Check for permitted additions specifically; the enclosed-carport-turned-bedroom is close to a regional tradition.
The numbers
What Pearl City & ʻAiea actually did in July 2026
Single-family homes and condos move on different clocks, so they are reported separately. A dash means the report recorded no closed sales that month — not a figure we are missing. And read the closed-sales row before you read any percentage above it: in a month with only a handful of sales, a change of several hundred percent is arithmetic rather than a trend, which is what the year-to-date rows are there to settle.
| Metric | Single-family | Condo |
|---|---|---|
| Median sale price | $1,078,000+12% | $482,500+17% |
| Median days on market | 12 days | 26 days |
| Percent of original list received | 102.2% | 98.7% |
| Closed sales | 28+56% | 20-33% |
| Active inventory | 19 | 96 |
| Year-to-date medianJan–Jul 2026 | $1,150,000+10% | $420,000-7% |
| Year-to-date closed salesJan–Jul 2026 | 125+13% | 151-3% |
Oʻahu Local Market Update, July 2026. Percent changes are against Jul 2025. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed — and a median is an average of other people’s houses, not an estimate of yours.
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